The clarion., 1887-10-12
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A Georgia physician has succeeded
in removing a half-pound tumor from
hen.
Gen. Belknap is having printed at
Keokuk a history of the 10Th Iowa in
fantry, which embraces GOO pages
John Gomez, living at Marco, Fla,
on the Gulf coast, has the reputation
of having lived to the age of III years.
Miss Margaret Orthaus, whose father
came to America as private secretary
to Maximillian. was recently married
| at Oshkosh, Wis.
Local optionists will present to the
| board of commissioners of Hillsboro,
| d. T., petition signed by 100 names
in favor of prohibition.
An old well near Ravenna, Ohio, is
attracting attention by blowing hard
enough to sound big whistle or suck
ing air in as it takes notion.
Wichita is without debt, which can
be said of no other city in Kansas. and
taxes are lower in Wichita than in any
city, town or village in Kansas.
| Under the laws of Oregon 10 per
cent of the bail money forfeited by de-
fault of persons held on criminal
charges goes to the district attorney.
| Up to the 1st of July the Iron Noun
| tain road sold to actual settlers TO-
600 more acres of Arkansas lands than
it sold during the corresponding period
last year.
| There is movement on foot for the
city of Oshkosh, Wis, to purchase the
water works plant, which is at present
owned by few wealthy citizens and
valued at $40,
| Kenesaw post of Danville, ILL.,, has
| adopted Peart Zerse and Katie Funk
as the daughters of the post, and have
presented them with blue sashes with
| gilt-letter inscriptions.
| WILDER French, who lives between
Flint and Flushing, Mich, has had five
horses killed by lightning in the last
| seven years, and nearly every tree on
the farm has been struck.
There is negro man living near
Coleman, Ga, who is the father of
| thirty-four children. He is 81 years
old, has his third wife with babe at
her breast, and is as active as most
men at so.
Mr.. f. Gatchell, who owns a tract
of mountain land in Cambria county,
Pennsylvania, was looking over it the
other day and came upon a cavern in
which he found bed of snow and ice
three feet thick.
Michael Hoffman, of Reading, Pa,
IS years old and wealthy, who has
teen a widower for six months, has
been married to Mrs. Dora A Rentz
aged 45, who has been widow for
only three months.
The favorite temperance refresh
ment in Hot Springs, under the three
mile prohibition law, is brandy cher
ries. They are brought to the town
in sufficient quantities to make great
many people drunk.
Mrs. Ole Bull recently conducted a
party of young people through the
White Mountains. They travelled en-
tirely IN buckboards, CARRYING their
baggage with them, and had all the
fun there was going.
In Europe there is proverb accord
ing to which the visit of a sovereign to
a subject always carries great mis-
fortune in its train. In most cases it
is looked upon as certain forerunner
of approaching death.
| Eight little girls of Warwick, n. Y.
| have sent $142. % to the New York
| Trfbune's Fresh Air Fund" for poor
children, the proceeds of a fair held by
| them. Those little girls will make
| grand women some day.
| Miss Alice Freeman has resigned
| the Presidency of Wellesley College in
order to marry Harvard Professor.
| 1t is unfortunate for the cause of edu-
/ cation that this Harvard man couldn't
| find wife somewhere else.
The sale of native wine permitted by
| the three-mile prohibition law is thriv-
| ing in Hot Springs. 1t is estimated
| that 10000 gallons of domestic wine
will be made from this years crop of
grapes by Hot Springs yintners.
Poison ivy can be eradicated by cut
ting off the plants just below the sur
face of the ground and then covering
the top that is left in the ground with
salt Iron weeds and dock in mead
ows may be destroyed in the same
way.
a sportive bull in Wayne, Neb.,
charged on the town fire engine while
the machine was being tested. The
boys turned the hose on the bulls eve,
and, after four successive charges, the
animal retired to the field thoroughly
cooled
A Lawrence, Kas., Tribune reporter
IN three line item threatened to pub
Ilsh list of those who received their
beer from Kansas City, and the T'ri5-
uae next day apologized editoriallv for
the terror it had caused, saws an ex-
change.
The temperature 1000 feet in De-
Ianys cave. Fayette county, Penusyl-
Eanla, was AZ degrees while outside at
the same time it was 90 and the water
from spring in the cave was at 43
degrees, the coldest spring water in
the country.
A negro snake charmer in Little
Rock was picking up few dimes on
the street the other day by swallowing
snake for public amusement. The
serpent grew weary of the sport and
put an end to the show by biting the
darky severely on the cheek.
Jay Gould has been asked to build .
cnurch In the Catskill mountains where
.ne oid one used to stand that he at
tended when boy. He would rather
Guy something cheap" in the way of
an 4io faiiroad If there was anything
OF the kind in that vicinity.
The Kalamazoo gas well struck a
deposit of remarkably pure clay, sixty
feet thick. This nodded and burned
would, 1t IS said by experts, produce
cherry red brick superior TO the ia
nous Philadelphia pressed brick. II
Is down l30 feet below the surface.
Near Mexico, Mo-, the other dav a
farmer named Andrew Movers tried tn
ride vicious stallion, when the ami
mai knocked him down and began |
biting him Meyers was complefeIv
scalped and portion of the left cbeek |
away.
Inc editor OF an English society pa
per eonfesses that he likes American
women much better than English
women, but writes down the former /
constantly in his paper because the
latter, who read his paper, are iealaus
OF the Americans and likes 10 have
them attacked The bad British
women,'
A physician who lives near the SEQ
corroborates the popular Superstition
apout people dying with the OUTGOING
J. lioe- de says that during the past
nFe years he has noted the hour and
minute OF death of ninety-three ma
uents, and every one of them went out
accident 'e1 ~
CAN any thing be sadder than work left
Yes, work never begun
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